Innovative and Functionalized Polymers: Processing, Development and Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 21269
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past decades, the technology connected to the production and modification of polymers has exponentially grown in view of their applications and performances. The poor thermal and electrical conductivity, weak interfacial bonding and low robustness are a few of the limitations exhibited by most polymers. To overcome these drawbacks, polymers can be processed using a variety of physical or chemical approaches, including blending the polymer, incorporating fibers and nanoparticles or through the use of lithography or laser irradiation, just to name a few.
Natural or synthetic polymeric matrixes are becoming leading solutions for fabricating flexible and stretchable electrically conductive materials, which are promising candidates for use in fundamental physics, wearable electronics and sensors. The design and fabrication of high-aspect-ratio features and three-dimensional patterns, the tailoring of the composition and density, and the porosity tunability of the polymeric matrices are demanding for their applicability.
This Special Issue on “Innovative and Functionalized Polymers: Processing, Development and Applications” is focused on the use of hybrid or modified polymers used for technological or biomedical applications to create new materials.
Authors are invited to submit their latest research outcomes, including original papers and reviews on the development of innovative polymers.
Dr. Mariapompea Cutroneo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart polymers
- polymeric composites
- material design and synthesis
- fundamental physics
- laser irradiation
- ion beam modification
- lithography
- membranes
- tissue engineering
- state-of-the-art polymers
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